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Rep. Jim Cooper

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Term Start Term End Role    State  Party 
2007 2008 Representative TN Democrat
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Recent Voting History

The votes below were taken by roll call, a voting procedure that records a vote from every Senator or Representative on the bill under consideration. This Member of Congress may have voted on other bills by the process known as "voice vote", but these votes are not recorded.
BillVoted
On Motion to Adjourn: ADJOURN Aye
August 01, 2008
H.Res.1316 Honoring the service of the Navy and Coast Guard veterans who served on the Landing Ship Tank (LST) amphibious landing craft during World War II, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, Operation Desert Storm, and global operations through 2002 and recognizing the essential role played by LST amphibious craft during these conflicts.
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree: H RES 1316 Honoring the service of the Navy and Coast Guard veterans who served on the LST amphibious landing craft during WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam war, Operation Desert Storm, and global operations through 2002
Aye
August 01, 2008
H.Res.1008 Condemning the persecution of Baha'is in Iran.
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended: H RES 1008 Condemning the persecution of Baha is in Iran
Aye
August 01, 2008

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Jim Cooper in the News feed

July 22, 2008 Cooper says co-ops should provide rebates

(AP) - Congressman Jim Cooper says consumers of 50 rural electric cooperatives in the Tennessee Valley need greater financial transparency from their power ...

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July 21, 2008 Chatter Class: Are Channel 5 and ‘The Tennessean’ destined to be ...

Congressman Jim Cooper has been particularly vocal in his opposition to Nashville’s daily owning a station. Bonten bought its first group of stations early ...

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Source: Nashville City Paper, TN


July 21, 2008 Vote early for Aug. 7 election

The US House Primaries involve incumbent Democrats Bart Gordon, District 6, and Jim Cooper, District 5, who are both unopposed. On the Republican side of ...

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Source: Wilson Post, TN


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Jim Cooper in the Blogs feed

August 04, 2008 re: Agile Software: Business Impact and Business Benefits

> Of course, the waterfall methodology doesn't really do a better job at this. I don't think anyone has ever used pure waterfall. IIRC, the paper that introduced the term did so in order to make exactly that point. ...

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Source: 10x Software Development - All Comments


August 04, 2008 America's $53 trillion jumbo loan

Some wise Democrats and Republicans in Congress (Jim Cooper and Frank Wolf in the House and Kent Conrad and Judd Gregg in the Senate) have a way to move forward. Their bills would name a bipartisan commission to recommend changes to ...

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August 03, 2008 Hispanic advocates must be willing to call out Democrats as well ...

One of the points to tomorrow's meeting will probably be how to protect the reputations of Democratic Mayor Karl Dean and Congressman Jim Cooper, if the e-mail I received in response to attending the meeting was any indication. ...

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Top Funding Industry: Finance/Insur/RealEst
Top Contributor: Operating Engineers Union ($5,000)
IndustryDonation% of total
Finance/Insur/RealEst $37,300 23.4 %
Lawyers & Lobbyists $21,050 13.2 %
Ideology/Single-Issue $19,710 12.4 %
Misc Business $17,150 10.8 %
Health $15,000 9.4 %
Labor $12,500 7.8 %
Other $9,800 6.2 %
Construction $9,000 5.6 %
Communic/Electronics $6,300 4.0 %
Transportation $4,000 2.5 %
Agribusiness $3,500 2.2 %
Defense $3,000 1.9 %
Energy/Nat Resource $1,000 0.6 %
Total:$159,310

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